Let's find out! 😎
I just gave Sudesh (our VP of hotel operations) a call and asked if he could join me tomorrow live from onboard SeaDream 1. We will be streaming live video and audio and hopefully talk to some of our crew members and/or see the water slide in action. You can watch us live tomorrow on Youtube, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. Here is a link to the Youtube stream:
If the time does not work for you, I think it will be recorded (my first live stream even, I still have a learning curve).
Now, to respond more formally to your question: Starlink is a game changer when it comes to the internet onboard. The feedback from guests and crew has been overwhelmingly positive. We still do charge for internet which is really the only negative feedback, but if it helps at all, at least the quality is much better and the price is the same as before. Now, no technology is perfect and cannot guarantee that our live streaming event will work tomorrow. But at least I am confident enough to have this as a public experiment/test 🙂
Starlink is fairly new and they do not yet have full global coverage. As a result we have backup systems in place (traditional satellite connection and 4G/5G backup). The only place we had to really use our backup systems have been on our transatlantic voyages where we had limited Starlink coverage for a few days. From what I have been told, we will have full coverage on our spring crossings, but if that is not the case we have backup.
